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In the late 60s I built a plastic model of a Gemini capsule. As I recall, it came with several possible configurations. One of them was the paraglider configuration. It didn’t come with the glider, but it had landing skids and little doors on the side of the capsule that they would have deployed out of. I didn’t build that version; I built the docking version.

Amy, I must say I’m intrigued by your mysterious reference to “bringing all these pieces into something much larger”! I can’t wait to see the revelation of what you have in mind!
IMHO, it’s one of those accidents of history that the parawing was invented by the Rogallos in 1948, whereas the parafoil wasn’t patented until 1966. Perhaps if the order of invention had been reversed, Gemini, and follow-on spacecraft, would have been landing for years now at a runway at KSC, without the much greater expense, weight penalty, and compromised safety which the Shuttle program saddled us with for 30 years.
-Stu Young